Word: editor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play hooky from church, who set their children a bad example, who mistakenly consider churchgoing a mid-Victorian custom, who consider their salvation less important than the fact that it is too hot or too cold to go out on Sunday morning. Adman Peifer graduated to "Go-To-Church Editor'' when, in an ad attacking the pursuit of pleasure, he solicited names of anyone in need of "the sheltering arm of the church." Atlantic City merchants gladly signed up at $2.75 apiece per week to have their names appear as sponsors of Mr. Peifer's thoughts...
These were not the only fascinating ears which Robert Carter Cook, editor of the Journal oj Heredity, fished out of the genetics grab bag. He also produced the ears of the Canright and Powell families. The ears of the Powells, starting with F. J. Powell, a retired merchant of West Lafayette, Ohio, are lobeless - i.e., the "lobes" are fastened to the skin of the neck. The ear lobes of Harry Lee Canright, onetime a medical missionary at Chengtu, China, and of his family are free. Dr. Canright's free-lobed daughter married lobeless Eugene F. Powell, zoologist...
Early in 1935, Editor Carlton Cole Magee of the Oklahoma News invented a device which he called the Dual Park-O-Meter because it had two purposes: to control parking, provide revenue. A typical parking meter is a waist-high metal post standing at curb's edge and crowned with a dial and a simple slot machine. When a coin is inserted, the meter marks time for the car parked beside it. When time is up, the driver must move his car away or risk a summons. In November 1935, Oklahoma City tried 174 of Editor Magee...
Born in Surprise, Neb., Rufus Woods saw his first circus there. When he grew to 5 ft. 8 in., 210 lb., 59 years, he was well-known in the State of Washington as editor and publisher of the Wenatchee World. Last week the nation became aware of Mr. Woods, through widely published pictures, as the editor who turned clown...
This did not surprise Wenatchee. Editor Woods, on vacation, was gratifying a boyhood ambition and gathering material for his column. "In Our Own World," all in one putty-nose junket. He did two performances a day with a professional clown named "Happy" Kellams in the Cole...